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ORION T. DOZIER, M. D. 

BIRMINGHAM, ALA. 

November 1920 
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JUST A-THINKING 



ORION Ti bOZIER, M. D. 

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BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA 



AUTHOR OF 

FOIBLES OF FANGY AND RHYMES OF THE TIMES, 

POEMS PATRIOTIC, 

A GALAXY OF SOUTHERN HEROES, 

CHIPS AND WHETSTONES, 

THE GURSE OF ROMAN CATHOLICISM, 

A RESPONSE TO PRIEST JAS.E. COYLE, 

ET CETERA 



WITH APPENDIX 



NOVEMBER, 1920 ANNO DOMINI 



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COPYRIGHTED 1920 

Y O. T. DOZIER, M. D 

BIRMINGHAM, ALA. 



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NOV 18 1920 



Dedication 



In compliance with custom I presume that this, as 
other books, should be dedicated to some one, but 
having no friend that I would risk offending, no 
enemy upon whom I would wreak revenge, I have 
thought of dedicating it to the Roman Catholic 
Priesthood of America, one and all who prefer light 
to darkness, truth to tradition, fact to fiction, sanity 
to superstition, righteousness to wrong, education to 
ignorance, tolerance to tyranny, the Word of God 
to Papal Bulls, happy homes and virtuous wives to 
prison nunneries, convents and concubines, Public 
Schools to Parochial Punk Shops, and who love lib- 
erty and openly advocate freedom of speech, freedom 
of conscience, freedom of religious worship, freedom 
of the Press, freedom of assembly, and who gives 
his first, highest and supreme allegiance to the 
American Constitution, to the American Flag and to 
American laws, and who favors the enactment of 
laws limiting the franchise to those only who are 
unequivocally loyal to the American Government, 
and who — but, Mon Dieu ! everybody with any sense 
knows "there ain't no sich animal;" therefore I do 
here now and hereafter, forever and thereafter, ded- 
icate this bunch of rhymes to all fools in general, and 
especially to those darn fools who believe there are 
any "sich critters." 

THE AUTHOR. 

November, 1920. 



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I believe in God — just one and no more — 
And all man-made gods I reject and ignore: 
The God I accept is the God who made man, 
No man-made god, since god-making began. 
And the Bible I love is Nature's great book, 
In which I find wisdom wherever I look. 
And the creed that I hold concerning God's will 
Is to lead a clean life, and strive to fulfill 
Every mission of duty, of service and love 
To fellow-men here and to Jehovah above. 
To be truthful and honest, forgiving and kind, 
And led by my conscience and best light of mind. 
To curb every passion save the gentle and mild, 
Never knowingly wronging man, woman or child : 
But to love and show mercy and kindness bestow 
On the weak and opprest wherever I go. 
And strive to make happy as far as I may 
Every mortal I meet on life's drear y way. 
To be virtuous and faithful, unswervingly just, 
As I'd have others be whom I would trust : 
To cultivate faith in a hope of new birth 
When my work shall cease and I'm called from this earth 
Just this and no more is the measure and meed 
And all that I hold and claim as my creed. 
Not a word more or less would I add if I could, 
Not a word more or less could I add if I would : 
All contentments and comforts its tenets supply 
To fit me to live and fit me to die. 

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ytty Kncredulit? 



Now lest I be judged by the orthodox few 

An Infidel, Pagan, Moslem or Jew, 

I will add a few lines such minds to relieve, 

Regarding some things which I do not believe. 

I do not believe all I hear preachers tell, 

Of a wrathful God, and an endless Hell, 

Nor do I believe ever mortal had birth 

To rule in God's stead, we mortals of earth, 

Nor to man has ever the power been given 

To loose things on earth, or to bind things in Heaven; 

Nor in transubstantiation of a dry bit of bread, 

Into flesh of a man, two thousand years dead. 

But e'en if I did Fm not such a cannibal quite, 

As to eat a dead man, for I don't think it just right. 

Nor that the drinking of wine can do my soul good 

Tho' given by one who should swear 'twas Christ's blood; 

Nor believe I in cures miraculous and quaint, 

Effected by bones of some rotten old saint. 

Nor believe I that Jonah e'er swallowed a whale, 

Nor believe I in any other big Bible fish tale. 

And the stories I read of Samson and Golia(t)h 

I regard as but myths of some cheerful old liar. 

In fact, I've no faith in such absurd, foolish stuff: 

I know it's all bosh, and for me that's enough. 

And I don't care a damn, a mill dam of course, 

For those fables and myths of effete pagan source. 

Holy shrines, holy water, and holy incense, 

Holy temples, holy relics and all priestly pretense, 



Such as prying of souls out of hell with their masses, 
Paid for in advance, by some stupid fool asses, 
Who are credulous enough to part with their cash 
For such profane, worthless lip-mumbling trash. 
And I do not, I cannot, I will not believe 
That God ever yet caused a maid to conceive, 
Or that from a womb man ever yet came forth 
Of such transcendent glory, and immaculate worth 
As to be worthy of worship, and be hailed as God's son, 
Or that Jesus and God are the same and are one. 
And I'm just as incredulous of the great Holy Ghost 
As I am of Christ's flesh in the batter cake Host. 
Nor believe I the mother, of Christ and his brothers, 
Is any more divine than a million of others 
Who have labored in travail and brought forth in pain 
In accord with the law Nature seems to maintain. 
In Immaculate Conception some folks may believe, 
And declare that it's woman's best way to conceive; 
Their right to such faith I will readily agree 
But that kind of faith won't at all do for me. 



introspection 



This grand old world with all its faults, 

With all its virtues and defects, 
For me is ever good enough, 

And I'm not worrying for the next. 
I do not know how came it here, 

Revolving ever in its course, 
Nor can I probe with finite mind, 

To learn its first great primal source. 

II 

Nor can my mental vision grasp 

The dawning or the end of time, 
Nor can my reason fathom space, 

Nor count the orbs in realms sublime. 
Nor matter can my hands destroy, 

Nor can I Nature's laws suspend, 
Nor solve the mysteries of my life, 

Of whence it came or when 'twill end. 

Ill 

But this I know as all men know, 

Who on these earthly plains abide, 
That we are transients of a day, 

And soon must cross the Great Divide 
That parts the living and the dead; 

No more this way to come again, 
When all we hold and all we love 

Must leave behind here to remain. 

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IV 

From whence first came Life's vital spark 

No mortal man can yet explain ; 
That mystery, too, that men call Death 

A mystery must still remain, 
Till Nature's God the curtain lifts, 

Man's past and future to unveil. 
Till then we all must blindly grope 

With only hope to light the trail — 



Which ever leads on to that bourn 

From which no traveler e'er returned ; 
That bourn so shunned with fear and dread, 

But where the millions now inurned, 
Await earth's millions yet to come. 

Where rich and poor, both king and slave 
By nature's equalizing law 

Must equals sleep in silent grave. 

VI 

But deep in my subconscious mind, 

Or should I say subconscious soul ? 
A struggling germ of faith abides 

That life will break pale Death's control, 
And like an eagle 'scaped from cage 

Will wing its flight to realms above, 
Where shining worlds resplendent roll, 

And live in wisdom, truth and love. 

VII 

Yes, verily I do believe 

That there is one great living God, 
Whose will all astral worlds obey 

Including this our mundane clod, 
And that His will expressed in laws 

Observed in all His works sublime 
Immutable from first to last, 

From dawn unto the end of time. 

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VIII 

Tho' subject I to Nature's laws 

Their mysteries I can't explain, 
And though I do not, cannot know 

That after death I'll live again, 
Yet this I know beyond all doubt, 

That there are great eternal rules 
Or laws of Nature questioned not 

Except by Atheists and by fools. 

IX 

Then say, how could there e'er be laws, 

Or rules of action if not made 
By one Supreme or having power 

To cause those laws to be obeyed? 
The laws of gravity and of light, 

The law that rules the ocean's tide — 
Controls the motion of the stars — 

These laws we know fore'er abide. 



And every law called Natural law 

That rules the world inanimate 
But proves existence of a God 

From whence those laws must emanate, 
For high above and over man 

Must be the supernatural source, 
Supreme, eternal, living still, 

A God who keeps those laws in force. 

XI 

Like footprints found in yielding snow 

Although the maker be not seen, 
We see the tracks and well we know 

Some one before us there has been ; 
So Nature's laws which we observe 

Are proofs that some one made those laws 
Which govern earth and worlds on high, 

And that 'twas God, the first Great Cause. 

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XII 

Then since we know there is one God, 

Eternal and omnipotent, 
Who rules the earth and realms above 

And holds his job well competent 
To run His works as well He may 

Without advice or meddling aid 
Of Pope or Kaiser, King or Czar, 

Or any God that men have made : 

XIII 

It seems to me that truly He 

That God supreme, must smile with scorn, 
To see the vile and false pretense 

Of any man of woman born 
Who dares proclaim himself to be 

Vicegerent on this mundane ball 
Of Him, the One and only God 

Whose will and law is over all. 

XIV 

Infallibility of Popes, 

The right divine of Kingly Rule, 
Miracles wrought by stress of faith 

Are claims so false that e'en a fool 
With no more reason than a clam — 

Tho' blind of sight and dumb and deaf — 
If he but have one ray of light 

Would scorn to hold to such belief. 

XV 

Absolving men of wicked sins, 

"Indulgent grants" to sin some more, 
Restoring health with dead men's bones, 

Opening of Purgatory's door 
With masses paid for by the dupes 

Of ignorance and superstition 
Are but the works of fakir priests 

Who claim to work by God's commission. 

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XVI 

Yes, tell me when and who was he — 

Preacher, prophet, priest or king — 
Who e'er displayed the heavenly seal, 

The autograph or signet ring 
Of Him the great Jehovah God, 

In true attest of sacred mission 
To act or speak for God on earth ; 

Alas! not one has such commission. 

XVII 

Not one, nor man of woman born 

Since this old world by God was planned, 
Such certitude has ever given 

That what he spoke was God's command: 
Or that his orders came from Heaven 

Nor that he better knew God's laws, 
His mysteries of Life and Death, 

Than any crow that struts and caws. 

XVIII 

Nor was there ever yet a book 

Produced in this or any age 
That bore the seal or signet sign 

Of God's attest on any page, 
To prove that it by him was made 

Or that 'twas through his inspiration, 
Yet not a seed, a leaf or bloom 

But bears the stamp of God's creation. 

XIX 

The Vedas and the Pentateuch, 

The Talmud and the Alkoran, 
The Mormon's "Heaven-sent Golden Plates," 

To me are but the works of man, 
For one and all evince less show 

Or touch of great Jehovah-God, 
Than does the smallest daisy bloom 

That decks the earth's most humble clod. 

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XX 

And yet, these pseudo sacred books 

The dogmas and tenets supply 
Of all the creeds of all mankind 

Concerning Him who rules on High. 
And millions of the human race 

Who might perhaps be sane and good 
Think they best serve that God above 

When drenching earth with human blood. 

XXI 

Kings claim to rule by right divine, 

Pope and Kaiser pretend likewise; 
But Kings and Popes, Sultans and Czars, 

All know such claims are monstrous lies. 
And yet, forsooth, these royal lords 

Find fools enough to do their will 
In waging wars of greed and hate 

To burn, to pillage and to kill. 

XXII 

Hence wars on wars succeeding rise 

Like tides that crash on Funday's shore — 
Tempestuous, wild, in furious rage 

With never ceasing thundrous roar. 
So roll the billowing tides of war 

That drench with blood this mundane sod 
Incited by those imps of hell, 

Who claim to rule by right of God. 

XXIII 

Tribe against tribe, race against race, 

Church against church, sect against sect, 
Fighting like fiends with hearts of hate 

All claiming to be God's own elect 
And waging wars men's souls to save 

By sword and torch, oh ! sad to tell, 
From a God-made wicked devil 

And from a God-created Hell. 

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XXIV 
But true as truth itself is true 

Or that water seeks its level, 
Is the fact that he who harder strives 

To save mankind from the devil 
With his dogmas, creed and cant 

Than he e'er strives himself to save 
May be a fool, or just a crank 

But should be watched as should a knave. 

XXV 

But all fools are not fanatics 

And fanatics are not all fools: 
Fanatics are born with scrambled brains 

And fools are born to be their tools; 
And every minute one is born — 

At least so say our wisest men, 
And I too sometimes almost think 

That every one is born a twin. 

XXVI 

Hence, this old world is full of fools, 

Yes, fools of every kind and breed, 
Fanatics, cranks and crazy loons, 

And piety-peddling slaves of creed; 
But of all fools, the real damphools, 

By whom this world is now accursed — 
Those wafer-eating, fool-competing 

Lay Romanists are the worst. 

XXVII 

Obsessed with but one thought in life — 
To 'scape the censure of the priest 

By whom their zone of thought's prescribed— 
By whom they too are ever fleeced, 

They swear to do what he commands, 
To lie, to steal, assassinate, 

Or ply the torch and place the bomb — 
To do, in fact, what priests dictate. 

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XXVIII 

Hence, false swearing and sabotage, 

Midnight arson and cold murder, 
Are as much a part of laymen's work 

As shearing sheep is to the herder. 
And for such crimes these laymen go 

To their holy Dad's confessing 
There to receive absolution 

And to obtain a priestly blessing. 

XXIX 

Surcharged with superstitious faith, 

In legends base and pagan rites, 
Subservient slaves to priestly rule, 

Suppressing reason's brightest lights — 
Abjuring nature's one true God — 

In whom is all man's trust and hope, 
Like smitten dogs they cringing fawn 

And worship their blaspheming Pope. 

XXX 

Should some one these assertions doubt, 

Or papalist their truth deny, 
Let such but read the Canon Laws — 

The world's records of infamy — 
The criminal records of the courts, 

Then if he still the truth denies, 
Let him be crowned earth's greatest liar 

For surely he should have the prize. 

XXXI 

Who but ungrateful, craven curs 

Would tear the hand that had caress'd ? 
Who but vipers would implant 

Their poisoned fangs into the breast 
That had warmth and shelter given? 

Tho' unbelievable to tell, 
It is those viper-hearted curs, 

Those base ingrates — those imps of hell! 

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XXXII 

Who came in wretchedness and rags, 

Half starved, and bent with sorrow's load, — 
With bleeding stripes and bruises sore 

Inflicted by the cruel goad 
Oy tyrant hands in lands afar — 

Yes, cringing came into these lands 
Where freedom's Goddess faltered not 

In greeting them with outstretched hands. 

XXXIII 

Yet, who are now the traitors bold 

That dare our nation's laws defy? 
Who are the curs and vipers vile 

Who would our nation crucify? 
Who'd rend the flag that shelters them, 

Poor purblind traitorous knaves, 
Who'd make of this our glorious land, 

A land of serfs and papal slaves ? 

XXXIV 

Yea, who are they who curse and spurn 

The Public School, our Nation's pride, 
And who by their "Ne Temere" 

Have our marriage laws defied, 
And still with insult base and vile, 

Every wife and mother now malign 
With sanctimonious hellish cant, 

As but a filthy concubine? 

XXXV 

By whom was Abra'm Lincoln slain ? 

By whom was grand old Garfield killed? 
Who struck the great McKinley down ? 

By whom was blood of Roosevelt spilled? 
Who were the men that murdered Black, 

Who swept the Bible from our schools ? 
The answer is : 'twas Catholics, 

The Pope's own soul-calloused tools. 

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XXXVI 

But Catholics are not all fools, 

Their priests in truth are sly and wise; 
Yes, holy Fathers, every one 

At daddying they hold the prize. 
But wise and sly as is each priest, 

To few of them is ever known 
Which parish kids have pseudo dads, 

And which of them are just their own. 

XXXVII 

There's something more those priests don't know 

But which they'd all do well to learn ; 
Tis that Americans brave and free 

Are now beginning to discern 
The treason and hypocrisy, 

Masked behind their pious guise. 
And to those bull-neck virgin frauds 

There's coming soon a big surprise. 

XXXVIII 

For like the storm presaging calm, 

When clouds hang low on sultry air, 
And sea fowls shoreward wing their flight 

Emitting cries of sheer despair, 
Or like the ocean's ominous hue 

Before the coming dread simoon, 
I see, I feel, I hear and know 

That there is coming none too soon, 

XXXIX 

A ground swell in this nation wide, 

A storm of just, indignant wrath, 
An earthquake of upheaving might 

From which the blessed aftermath 
Will be a nation clean and purged 

Of traitors, frauds and priestly fakes, 
E'en as Saint Pat old Erin cleared 

Of all her other kinds of snakes. 

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XL 

This in turn suggests the thought 

That best of men to err are prone, 
Infallible no man can be 

As old Saint Pat himself has shown. 
For even he, that "good" old Saint, 

Could sometimes make woeful mistakes, 
As when he failed to banish priests — 

But drove out all the lesser snakes, 

XLI 

Except for that, what man can doubt 

That Ireland today might be 
A nation great 'mongst nations grand, 

Of liberty-loving men, and free, 
Instead of slaves to priestly craft, 

Fettered by gyves of ignorance, 
Base pagan rites and poverty 

Which hell's own chief could not enhance. 

XLII 

Think of those seven hundred years, 

Long centuries of rapacious rape 
By Romish robbers — the Pope's prelates 

From whom it seems she'll never 'scape. 
Yes, think of Ireland's hellish woes, 

And what she truly might have been 
Had not Saint Pat set cloven foot 

Upon that Isle of emerald green. 

XLIII 

Yes, Ireland, O Ireland, 

By Pope of Rome to England sold — 
Doomed to centuries of woe, 

Through greedy lust of Rome for gold, 
Sad is thy fate, Oh fairest isle, 

Rent racked and robbed through vile pretense 
Of holy Pope for raising cash 

To pay the tax of Peter's pence. 

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XLIV 

But sad howe'er as Erin's lot 

Her fate, alas ! is none the worse, 
Than other lands as bright and fair 

Made wretched by the Papal curse. 
See Mexico, in throes of death, 

Behold how low is fallen Spain, 
In every other land on earth 

Where'er Rome could her foothold gain. 

XLV 

Yet in the wondrous years to come 

Foreshadowed by the mystic stars, 
Old Ireland's sunburst yet may rise 

To heal and bleach the wounds and scars 
Of centuries of war and strife, 

And lift the clouds, the deathly pall 
Of Roman superstition's blight — 

"The serpent's trail that's over all." 

XLVI 

But when the men of Ireland 

Shall wake and from their slumber rise, 
And dare to think and dare to act — 

And then behold with their own eyes, 
That harlot of the seven hills, 

Beneath whose scarlet robes they'll see 
And recognize the cloven foot, 

Of him, their Pope, who claims to be 

XL VII 

Sole King of earth, of heaven and hell, 

They then, perhaps, with vision clear 
With hearts and souls, and conscience free 

No more a Hell or Pope to fear 
May in their majesty of might, 

Break every slimy coil that binds 
With odium, ignorance and despair 

Their hearts, their souls, conscience and minds. 

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XLVIII 

And free themselves of every tie 

Of Roman quackery and sham — 
Those pagan myths and priestly frauds 

Their pinchbeck charms not worth a damn, 
And High, Low, fake game of Masses 

For hoisting souls from purgatory 
And shipping them to realms on high 

To dwell in everlasting glory. 

XLIX 

As well as from all other fakes 

Of those old baldhead candle prancing, 
Latin blabbing, Christ blood drinking — 

Petticoated, shimmy dancing 
Fake healers of all human ills 

The panacea — old Saint Ann's shins 
And such like fakes of priestly fakirs, 

As absolving men of all their sins. 

L 

Yes — when the men of Ireland 

Disenthralled by erudition 
With reason's light and manhood's might 

Shall burst the bonds of superstition, 
And free themselves of fettering chains 

Of papal graft and papal greed, 
Then may their Country be redeemed 

And from slavery be forever freed. 

LI 

And Erin's flag of emerald hue 

May then by patriots be unfurled 
To proudly float forever more, 

Hailed and respected by the world. 
And Erin's sunburst then may shine 

With radiant blaze o'er land and foam 
To glorify the Irish race 

And not mere slaves of papal Rome. 

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LII 

But be that matter as it may, 

As sure as God controls the Fates 
Our glorious, grand old Stars and Stripes, 

The flag of these United States, 
Shall be the one and only flag 

To float above this nation grand 
Whilst God shall give to us the might 

To shield and keep our native land. 

LIII 

Nor should the alien traitor hordes 

Of foreign potentates and Pope, 
Find any welcome in this land 

Except to stretch a hempen rope. 
And when such base, ignoble knaves 

Hoist any flag above "Old Glory" 
By wireless in double quick 

They should be sent to Purgatory. 

LIV 

But what of those damned Jesuits — 

That most colossal, traitorous band 
Of murderers, perjurers, thieves and liars, 

The anarchists of every land, 
The Bolshevists of every clime, 

Boll weevils of the human race— 
The enemies of God and man, 

Where but in Ebo's darkest place — 

LV 

Reserved for those the doubly damned — 

Where else but there, should be consigned 
Those slimy, hissing human snakes ! 

Where else could the devil find 
A fitter place for Jesuits ! 

Unless he dig a deeper cell 
For them and their blaspheming Popes 

Whom He may deem too mean for Hell. 

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.Appendix 



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Having been guilty of fabricating the foregoing rhymes 
and stanzas and having conspired with the printers for the 
publication of same, it has occurred to me, as an afterthought, 
that it might be prudent for me to offer some sort of excuse, 
or apology, in extenuation of my temerity in waving a red 
rag in the face of that infamous old bull of Rome, whose 
presence has ever been and is today the greatest menace to 
civilization and to the peace of the world. 

The matter which I here present is all of genuine, well 
established and authenticated Roman Catholic production, 
consisting of some of their savage, blood-curdling oaths, Canon 
laws, treasonable declarations, anathemas against our public 
schools and marriage laws, together with a few excerpts from 
sermons of Catholic priests, Catholic papers, and magazines. 
These evidences of Roman Catholic disloyalty, and unfitness 
of Roman Catholics for citizenship in this Republic, shall con- 
stitute the only excuse I shall offer, and if this appendix 
shall cause pain to any one of my Catholic or pro-Catholic 
friends, he may cut it out, and still be in accord with a most 
popular fad. 

That the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is a dual, double- 
headed, hybrid monstrosity, is a generally admitted fact. This 
is never denied by Catholics themselves, except on such oc- 
casions as they may deem proper, as for instance, wherever I 
or any one else raises a protest against their meddling in 
politics, warring against our public schools, interfering with 
our marriage laws, maintaining female penitentiaries, House 
of Good Shepherd, sweat shops, nunneries and other like slave 
pens, and walled-in, iron-barred places and prisons, all of 
which are now run in disregard of law in this country and in 
despite of all decent public opinion, and which are maintained 
for the exclusive profit of the church and for the pleasure of 
the unmarried (fake virgin) priests. Then it is that denials 
are made and every old flannel-mouth lying reprobate of 
Romanism sets up a howl, against Bigotry, Intolerance, tyran- 
ny, all the while declaring that his church and his religion is 
being attacked, and immediately resorts to the use of the sub- 
verted or subsidized public press for sympathy and defense, 
which he usually gets. 

And, strange as it may seem, it is ever observably 
true that almost any old crossback, walking doorpull of 
hell may, at any time, find space in the columns of our secu- 

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lar press to exploit any kind of Catholic propaganda and get 
by with it as "Matter of Public News." But it matters not 
how big a convention, or redhot revival of protestants, though 
run night and day, with a hundred pounds of steam pressure 
and a hundred big steam whistles blowing all the time, like 
trumpets sounding the doom of the world, is held, it will us- 
ually attract less notice from the Daily Press than the sound- 
ing of one little tin whistle in the mouth of an old bull-neck 
priest. 

It was largely through the influence of the secular press 
of this country which enabled that infamous band of arch 
traitors, the Knights of Columbus, a purely sectarian organ- 
ization, to supplant and take precedence over all and every 
other sectarian body in the "War relief work," and this they 
did in disregard of the protests of every protestant church 
and protestant organization, and having forced its way into 
the Great War Drive, they were enabled to collect and em- 
bezzle more than 35 millions of dollars contributed by loyal 
protestants, one-third of which they have perverted to the 
propaganda work of their own infamous order. 

I will now present some facts i*nd snatches of evidence, 
chiefly of Catholic origin, which are offered in extenuation of 
any unseeming spirit of unfriendliness towards Romanism, 
which I may have displayed in the foregoing stanzas. 

Just here, I want it to be known as absolute truth, 
that I have never in the past, nor do I now hold any more 
prejudice against any man or woman or any sect of men and 
women on account of their personal religion, than I do for 
the color of their eyes or hair, or because of their preference 
for fried or scrambled eggs. I am in no wise interested in or 
prejudiced toward any man on account of what he may call 
his religion, but at the same time I cannot always regard 
the approach of a grinning mongrel cur, showing his teeth, 
as an assurance of good will and friendliness on his part, 
nor am I such a fool as to believe that any man can be a 
loyal member of the Roman Catholic Church, which is the 
militant foe to every cardinal principle of Democracy, and, 
at the same time, be loyal to the flag of these United States. 
And, while I would not like to be regarded as fighting that or 
any other church, yet, realizing as I do, that the Roman Cath- 
olic Church is a dual, inseparable religio-politico institution, I 
am anxious to know how in the Sam Hill am I to kick the po- 
litical stuffing out of that old hybrid mule without disturbing 
the better side of his pedigree, or to be plain how in the hades 
am I or any other patriotic, loyal American to expose the pol- 
itics, treason, treachery and cowardly undermining efforts of 
Romanists to destroy this grand old Republic, without punc- 
turing the pachydermatus hide of that old, bigoted mastodon 
of hell, the Roman Catholic Church. 

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THE POPE'S CURSE 

In nearly all standard works of Romanism the following 
Papal curse will be found recorded as an authoritative doc- 
ument. It is employed by the Popes of Rome, when excom- 
municating some recalcitrant official of the Roman Hierarchy, 
but more particularly on occasions when some king, prince or 
potentate, as King Henry VIII, Garibaldi or other indepen- 
dent, rational thinking dignitary, refused to wear his yoke or 
pay him tribute, or to recognize his authority as Vice Gerent 
of God, Chief Ruler of Heaven, Earth and the lower regions, 
and in nice, polite, diplomatic language advised him to cease 
his bluffing and go to hades. Then it is, on such provocations, 
that the old SWILL TUB dons his royal robes, puts on his old 
three-story, bee-gum shaped crown, eats a handful of sulphur, 
takes about four fingers of grape juice — or something strong- 
er — climbs onto his throne, spits in his hands, claps his fists 
together and lets off his great pontificial curse, with all the 
pomp and show of august authority as if he really believed he 
was touching off a volcano or setting an earthquake in action. 

Such is the thunderbolt which the old Pope pops off 
whenever he gets crazy mad and finds no sensible way of 
helping himself. 

While this curse has never proved of any force or help 
in fixing anything right or satisfactory for any old Jumbo 
Magnum of the Roman Church, and has never been known to 
do any harm to any one at whom it has been directed, I am 
only induced to present it here as a fair evidence of just what 
kind of a heart, soul and intelligence a man must have, who 
has the brazen effrontery and gall of the devil to call 
himself Vicar of Christ and Vice Gerent of God on earth. 
Let every reader draw his own conclusions as to what the 
Church must be, when from its fountain head can flow such 
ridiculous, absurd, wicked and blasphemous slush. 

THE POPE'S CURSE 

"By authority of the Almighty God, the Father, Sen and Holy Ghost ; 
and of the Holy Canons, and of the undefiled Virgin Mary, mother and 
nurse of our Savior ; and of the celestial virtues, angels, arch-angels, 
thrones, dominions, popes, cherubims, and seraphims ; and of all the holy 
patriarchs and prophets ; and of the apostles and evangelists ; and of the 
holy innocents, who, in the sight of the Holy Lamb, are found worthy to 
sing the new song ; and of the holy martyrs and holy confessors, and of 
the holy virgins, and of the saints, together with all the holy and elect 
of God ; we excommunicate and anathematize him, and from the threshold 
of the Holy Church of Almighty God we sequester him, that he may be 
tormented in eternal, excruciating sufferings, together with Dathan and 
Abiram, and those who say to the Lord God, 'Depart from us ; we desire 
none of thy ways.' And as fire is quenched by water, so let the light 
of him be put out for evermore. May the Son who suffered for us, curse 
him. May the Holy Ghost which was given to us in our baptism, curse 
him. May the Holy Cross which Christ, for our salvation, triumphing 
over his enemies, ascended, curse him. May the Holy and eternal Virgin 

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Mary, mother of God, curre him. May St. Michael, the advocate of holy 
souls, curse him. May all the angels and arch-angels, principalities and 
powers, and all the heavenly armies, curse him. May St. John the pre- 
cursor, and St. Peter, and St. Paul, and St. John the Baptist, and St. 
Andrew, and all other Christ's apostles together, curse him, and may the 
rest of his disciples and four Evangelists, who by their preaching con- 
verted the universal world — and may the holy and wonderful company 
of martyrs and confessors, who by their holy work are found pleading to 
God Almighty — curse him. May the Choir of the Holy Virgins, who for 
the honor of Christ have despised the things of this world, damn him. 
May all the saints who from the beginning of the world, and everlasting 
ages are found to be beloved of God, damn him. May the heavens and 
the earth, and all things remaining therein, damn him. 

"May he be damned wherever he may be ; whether in the house or in 
the field, whether in the highway or in the byway, whether in the wood 
er water, or whether in the church. May he be cursed in living and 
dying, in eating and drinking, in fasting and thirsting, in slumbering and 
sleeping, in watching or walking, in standing or sitting, in lying down or 
walking MINGENDO CANCANDO and in all blood letting. May he be 
cursed inwardly and outwardly. May he be cursed in his hair. May he 
be cursed in his brain. May he be cursed in the crown of his head and 
in his temples. In his forehead and in his ears. In his eyebrows and 
in his cheeks. In his jawbones and in his nostrils. In his foreteeth and 
in his grinders. In his lips and in his throat. In his shoulders and his 
wrists. In his arms, in his hands, and in his fingers. May he be 
damned in his mouth, in his breast, in his heart and in all the viscera 
of his body. May he be damned in his veins ; in his thighs ; in his hips 
and in his knees ; in his legs, feet and toe-nails. 

"May he be cursed in all the joints and articulations of his body. 
From the top of his head to the sole of his foot may there be no sound- 
ness in him. May the Son of the living God, with all the glory of his 
majesty, curse him ; and may heaven, with all the powers that move 
therein, rise up against him — curse him and damn him. Amen. So let it 
be ! Amen." 



THE CANON LAW 

The Canon Law, the undisputed fundamental code of Roman- 
ism, is utterly incompatible with the Constitution and Laws 
of our Republic, as witness the following leading provi- 
sions, gleaned therefrom by Dr. G. F. VonSchulte, Pro- 
fessor of Canonical Law at Prague, viz.: 

"I. All human power is from evil, and must therefore be standing 
under the Pope. 

"II. The Temporal powers must act unconditionally, in accordance 
with the orders of the spiritual. 

"III. The Church is empowered to grant, or to take away, any tem- 
poral possession. 

"IV. The Pope has the right to give countries and nations, which are 
non-Catholic to Catholic regents, who can reduce them to slavery. 

"V. The Pope can make slaves of those Christian subjects whose 
prince or ruling power is interdicted by the Pope. 

"VI. The laws of the Church, concerning the liberty of the Church 
and the Papal power, are based upon divine inspiration. 

"VII. The Church has the right to practice the unconditional censure 
of books. 

"VIII. The Pope has the right to annul State laws, treaties, consti- 
tutions, etc. ; to absolve from obedience thereto, as soon as they seem de- 
trimental to the rights of the Church, or those of the clergy. 



"IX. The Pope possesses the right of admonishing, and, if needs be, 
of punishing the temporal rulers, emperors, and kings, as well as of draw- 
ing before the spiritual forum any case in which mortal sin occurs. 

"X. Without the consent of the Pope no tax or rate of any kind can 
be levied upon a clergyman, or upon any Church whatsoever. 

"XI. The Pope has the right to absolve from oaths, and obedience 
to the persons and the laws of the princes whom he excommunicates. 

"XII. The Pope can annul all legal relations of those in ban, es- 
pecially their marriages. 

"XIII. The Pope can release from every obligation, oath, vow, either 
before or after being made. 

"XIV. The execution of Papal commands for the persecution of here- 
tics causes remission of sins. 

"XV. He that kills one that is excommunicated is no murderer in a 
legal sense." 

These Canons are amply corroborated by the following paragraphs 
from the Syllabus of Pius IX, issued Dec. 8th, 1864, and subsequently by 
the Decree of Infallibility confirmed as truths eternal and equal in author- 
ity with the Decalogue, viz. : 

"The State has not the right to leave every man free to profess and 
embrace whatever religion he shall deem true. 

"It has not the right to enact that the ecclesiastical powers shall re- 
quire the permission of the civil power in order to the exercise of its 
authority. 

"It has not the rierht to trent as an excess of power, or as usurping the 
rights of princes, anything that the Roman Pontiffs or Ecumenical Coun- 
cils have done. 

"It has not the right to adopt the conclusions of a National Church 
Council, unless confirmed by the Pope. 

"It has not the right of establishing a National Church separate from 
the Pope. 

"It has not the right to the entire direction of public schools. 

"It has not the right to assist subjects who wish to abandon monas- 
teries or convents." 

Then in the same Syllabus the rights and powers of the Church are 
affirmed, thus, viz. : 

"Sho has the right to require the State not to leave every man free 
to profess his own religion. 

"She has the right to exercise her power without the permission 
or consent of the State. 

"She has the right to prevent the foundation of any National Church 
not subject to the authority of the Roman Pontiff. 

"She has the right to deprive the civil authority of the entire govern- 
ment of public schools. 

"She has the right of perpetuating the union of Church and State. 

"She has the right to require that the Catholic religion shall be the 
only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all others. 

"She has the right to prevent the State from granting the public 
exercise of their own worship to persons immigrating into it. 

"She has the power of requiring the State not to permit free expres- 
sions of opinion." 



THE OATH OF JESUITS 

This horrible blood-curdling oath of the Jesuits is almost verbatim, 
the same as the alleged oath of the Knights of Columbus, concerning 
which so much has been said and written within the past few years. 

Rev. Wm. Black, having accepted a challenge from a representative 
of the Knights of Columbus to prove its authenticity as the oath taken 
by members of the Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus, named the place 
and date when he would face the challenging party in public and present 

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his proofs, but he was ignored by his challenger at the place and time 
designated, and was a few weeks later followed and murdered by five 
members of the Knights of Columbus, in his hotel room, in the town of 
Marshall, Texas, his murderers doubtless deciding that was the easiest way 
to settle the question at issue. 

But, when the Jesuits oath, and the reputed oaths of the Knights 
of Columbus are compared with the well authenticated Bishops, Cardinals 
and Priest's similar oaths of the Fenians, Hibernians and other Roman 
Catholic orders, there can be very little doubt as to the character of the 
Knights of Columbus Oath. But, from the numerous murders committed 
by them, and the many assaults made by them upon anti-Catholic lec- 
turers, there remains no room for quibbling about the mere verbiage of 
the oath, with which they are associated in the minds of all persons who 
have given any thought as to their real activities and intentions, which 
are to suppress all discussion adverse to Romanism in this country. 

THE JESUITICAL OATH 

I, , now in the presence of Almighty God, the 

blessed Virgin Mary, the blessed St. Jchn the Baptist, the holy apostles, 
St. Peter and St. Paul, and all the saints, sacred hosts of Heaven, and to 
you, my Ghostly Father, the superior general of the society of Jesus, 
founded by St. Ignatius Loyola, in the pontification of Paul the III, 
and continued to the present, do by the womb of the Virgin, the matrix 
of God, and the rod of Jesus Christ, declare and swear that his Holiness, 
the Pope, is Christ's vice-regent and is the true and only head of the 
Catholic or Universal Church throughout the earth ; and that by virtue of 
the keys of binding and loosing given to his Holiness by my Savior, Jesus 
Christ, he hath power to depose heretical kings, princes, states, common- 
wealths and governments, and they may be safely destroyed. Therefore, 
to the utmost of my power, I will defend this doctrine and his Holiness, 
right and custom against all usurpers of the heretical or Protestant au- 
thority, whatsoever, especially the Lutheran Church of Germany, Holland, 
Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and the now pretended authority and 
Churches of England and Scotland, and the branches of the same now 
established in Ireland, and on the continent of America and elsewhere, 
and all adherents in regard that they may be usurped and heretical, op- 
posing the sacred Mother Church of Rome. 

I do now denounce and disown any allegiance as due to any heretical 
king, prince or state, named Protestant or Liberals, or obedience to any 
of their laws, magistrates or officers. 

I do further declare that the doctrine of the Churches of England and 
Scotland, of the Calvinists, Huguenots and others of the name of Protest- 
ants or Liberals, to be damnable, and they themselves to be damned who 
will not forsake the same. 

I do further declare that I will help, asr.ist and advise all or any of 
his Holiness' agents, in any place where I shall be, in Switzerland, Gei*- 
many, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, England, Ireland or America, 
or in any other kingdom or territory I shall come to, and do my utmost to 
extirpate the heretical Protestant or Liberal doctrines, and to destroy all 
their pretended powers, legal or otherwise. 

I do further promise and declare that, notwithstanding I am dispensed 
with to assume any religion heretical for the propagation of the Mother 
Church's interest ; to keep secret and private all her agents' counsels from 
time to time, as they entrust me, and not to divulge, directly or indirect- 
ly, by word, writing or circumstances whatever, but to execute all that 
should be proposed, given in charge, or discovered unto me, by you, my 
Ghostly Father, or any of this sacred convent. 

I do further promise and declare that I will have no opinion or will 
of my own or any mental reservation whatsoever, even as a corpse or 
cadaver (perinde ac cadaver), but will unhesitatingly obey each and every 
command that I may receive from my superiors in the militia of the Pope 
and of Jesus Christ. 

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That I will go to any part of the world whithersoever I may be sent, 
to the frozen regions of the North, to the burning sands of the desert of 
Africa, or the jungles of India, to the centers of civilization of Europe, 
or to the wild haunts of the barbarous savages of America without mur- 
muring or repining, and will be submissive in all things whatsoever is 
communicated to me. 

I do further promise and declare that I will, when opportunity pre- 
sents, make and wage relentless war, secretly and openly, against all 
heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to do, to extirpate 
them from the face of the whole earth ; and that I will spare neither age, 
sex or condition, and that I will hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle, 
and bury alive these infamous heretics ,* rip up the stomachs and wombs 
of their women, and crush their infants' heads against the walls, in order 
to annihilate their execrable race. Thatwhen the same cannot be done 
openly, I will secretly use the poisonous cup, the strangulation cord, the 
steel of the poniard, or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor, rank, 
dignity or authority of the person or persons, whatever may be their con- 
dition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed 
so to do, by any agent of the Pope, or Superior of the Brotherhood of the 
Holy Father of the Society of Jesus. 

In confirmation of which I hereby dedicate my life, my soul, and all 
corporal powers, and with the dagger which I now receive I will subscribe 
my name, written in my blood, in testimony whereof ; and should I prove 
false or weaken in my determination, may my brethren and fellow sol- 
diers of the militia of the Pope cut off my hands and feet and my throat 
from ear to ear, my belly opened and sulphur burned therein with all the 
punishment that can be inflicted upon me on earth and my soul shall be 
tortured by demons in eternal hell forever. 

All of which I, , do swear by the blessed Trinity and 

blessed Sacrament which I am now to receive, to perform and on my part 
to keep this, my oath. 

In testimony whereof, I take this most holy and blessed Sacrament of 
the Eucharist, and witness the same further, with my name written with 
the point of this dagger, dipped in my own blood, and seal, in the face of 
this holy Sacrament. 

(He receives the wafer from the Superior and writes his name with 
the point of his dagger, dipped in his own blood, taken from over the 
heart. ) 



PRIEST'S OATH 

"I, , now in the presence of Almighty God, the blessed 

Virgin Mary, the blessed Michael the Arch Angel, the blessed St. John the 
Baptist, the Holy Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul, and the Saints and Sa- 
cred Host of Heaven, and to you, my Lord, I do declare from my heart, 
without mental reservation that the Pope is Christ's Vicar General, and 
is the true and only head of the Universal Church throughout the earth, 
and that, by virtue of the keys of binding and loosing given to his Holiness 
by Jesus Christ, he has power to depose heretical kings, princes, states, 
commonwealths and Governments, all being illegal without his sacred con- 
firmation, and that they may be safely destroyed. Therefore, to the utmost 
of my power, I will defend this doctrine and his Holiness' rights and cus- 
toms against all usurpers of the Protestant authority whatsoever, especial- 
ly against the now pretended authority and Church in England and all 
adherents, in regard that they may be usurped and heretical, opposing the 
Sacred Mother, the Church of Rome. 

"I do denounce and disown any allegiance as due to any Protestant 
King, Prince or State, or obedience to any of their inferior officers. I 
do further declare the doctrine of the Church of England, of the Calvinists, 
Huguenots and other Protestants, to be damnable, and those to be damned 
who will not forsake the same. 

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"I do further declare that I will help, assist and advise all or any of 
his Holiness' agents in any place wherever I shall be, and to do my ut- 
most to extirpate the Protestant doctrine and to destroy all their pretend- 
ed power, legal or otherwise. I do further promise and declare that not- 
withstanding I may be permitted by dispensation to assume any heretical 
religion (Protestant denominations) for the propagation of the Mother 
Church's interest, to keep secret and private all her agent's counsels as 
they entrust me and not to divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, writing 
or circumstances whatsoever, but to execute all which shall be proposed, 
given in charge of or discovered unto me by you, my most Reverend Lord 
and Bishop. 

"All of which I , swear by the blessed Trinity and 

blessed Sacrament which I am about to perform on my part to keep 
inviolably, and do call on all the Heavenly and Glorious Hosts of Heaven 
to witness my real intentions to keep this my oath. 

"In testimony whereof, I take this most holy and blessed Sacrament 
of the Eucharist, and witness the same further with my consecrated hand, 
and in the presence of my holy Bishop and all the priests who assist him 
in my ordination to the priesthood." 



THE OATH OF CARDINALS 
A British Blue Book Confirms the Patriotic Press 

The following foot note on pages 122, 123, of "Wylie's History of the 
Papacy," confirms the reiterated contention of the patriotic press, that a 
Romanist true to the teaching of his church cannot be a loyal citizen of 
any form of civil government, much less that of a republic : 

In December last (1850,) Lord Palmerston addressed from the foreign 
office to her Majesty's representatives abroad, a circular, instructing them 
to transmit copies of any concordat or equivalent arrangement between 
the court of Rome and the particular government to which each repre- 
sentative was accredited. The replies form the substance of a Blue Book 
of about 350 pages, which has recently been published. We extract from 
the inclosures received by government in January last, from the Hon. 
Ralph Abercrcmby, our representative at Turin, the copy of the oath re- 
quired to be taken by new cardinals in Sardinia. It entirely, and for all 
governments, settles the question of what a cardinal is, proving him to be 
the sworn emissary, spy, and creature of the court of Rome. He so 
pledges his allegiance to a foreign prince as palpably to rescind the alle- 
giance due to his own sovereign. 

The Cardinal's Oath. 

., cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, do promise 



and swear that, from this hour until my life's end, I will be faithful and 
obedient unto St. Peter, the Holy Apostolic Roman Church, and our Most 
Holy lord the Pope, and his successors, canonically and lawfully elected ; 
that I will give no advice, consent, or assistance against the 
Pontifical Majesty and person ; that I will never knowingly and advisedly, 
to their injury or disgrace, make public the counsels intrusted to me by 
themselves, or by messengers or letters (from them) ; also that I will give 
them any assistance in retaining, defending, and recovering the Roman 
Papacy and the Regalia of Peter, all my might and endeavor, so far as the 
rights and privileges of my order will allow it, and will defend against all, 
their honor and state ; and I will direct and defend, with due favor and 
honor, the legates and nuncios of the apostolic see, in the territories, 
churches, monasteries, and other benefices committed to my keeping ; that 
I will cordially co-operate with them, and treat them with honor in their 
coming, abiding, and returning ; and that I WILL RESIST UNTO BLOOD 
ALL PERSONS WHATSOEVER WHO SHALL ATTEMPT ANYTHING 
AGAINST THEM ; that I will by every way, and by every means, strive 

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to preserve, augment, and advance the rights, honors, privileges, the au- 
thority of the Holy Roman Bishop, our Lord the Pope, and his before-men- 
tioned successors ; and that at whatever time anything shall be devised to 
their prejudice, which it is out of my power to hinder, as soon as I shall 
know that any steps or measures have been taken (in the matter), I will 
make it known to the same our Lord, or his before-mentioned successors, 
or to some other person by whose means it may be brought to their knowl- 
edge. 

"That I will keep and carry out, and cause others to keep and carry 
out, the rules of the Holy Fathers, the decrees, ordinances, dispensations, 
reservations, provisions, apostolical mandates, and constitutions, of the 
Holy Pontiff Sixtus, of happy memory, as to visiting the thresholds of the 
apostles, at certain prescribed times, according to the tenor of that which 
I have just read through. 

"That I will seek out and oppose (persecute and fight against?) here- 
tics, schismatics, against the same our Lord the Pope and his before-men- 
tioned successors, with every possible effort. When sent for, from what- 
ever cause, by the same our Most Holy Lord, and his before-mentioned suc- 
cessors, that I will set out to present myself before them, or, being hind- 
ered by a legitimate impediment, will send some one to make my excuses ; 
and that I will pay them due reverence and obedience. That I will by no 
means sell, bestow away, or pledge, or give away in fee, or otherwise 
alienate, without the advice and knowledge of the Bishops of Rome, even 
with the consent of the said chapters, convents, churches, monasteries, and 
benefices, the possessions set apart for the maintenance of the churches, 
monasteries, and other benefices committed to my keeping, or in any way 
belonging to them. 

"That I will forever maintain the constitution of the blessed Pius V, 
which begins 'Admonet,' and is dated from Rome on the 4th of the calends 
of April, of the year of our Lord's incarnation 1567, and the second of his 
pontificate ; together with the declarations of the holy pontiffs his suc- 
cessors, particularly of Pope Innocent IX, dated at Rome the day before 
the nones of November, of the year of our Lord's incarnation 1591, of the 
first of his pontificate and of Clement VIII of happy memory, dated at 
Rome on the 16th of the calends of March, in the year 1592, and the tenth 
of his pontificate, on the subject (in the matter) of not giving away in fee 
or alienating the cities and places of the Holy Roman Church. Also, 
I promise and swear to keep forever inviolate the decrees and incorpora- 
tions made by the same Clement VIII on the 26th day of June of the 
before-mentioned year 1592, on the 2d day of November, 1592, and on the 
19th of January and the 11th day of February, 1598, in the matter of the 
city of Ferrara and the whole duchy thereof, as well as respecting all other 
cities whatsoever, and places recovered by him, and which fell in by the 
death of Alphonso, of happy memory, the last Duke of Ferrara, or other- 
wise to the Holy Roman Church and apostolic see. Also the decrees and 
incorporations made by Urban VIII of happy memory, on the 12th day of 
May, 1631, respecting the cities of Urbino, Eugubio, Carlii, Jorisempro- 
nium, of the whole duchy of Urbino, as well as in the matters of the cities 
of Pisauri, Sinogallia, St. Leo, the state of Monte Feltro, the vicariate of 
Mondovi, and of the other cities and places whatsoever recovered by and 
having devolved to the Holy Roman Apostolic Church by the death of 
Francis Maria, the last duke, or otherwise. Also the decree of incorpora- 
tion made in Consistory on the 20th day of December, 1660, by Alexander 
VII, of happy memory, in the matter of the duchy of Castri and the state 
of Ronicilioni, and other places, lands, and properties sold to the Apostolic 
Chamber by Raimuntius, duke of Parna ; and the constitution of the same 
Alexander VII, of happy memory, with the reason of, and allocution upon, 
the decree for incorporations of this kind, published on the 24th of Jan- 
uary, 1660, together with the confirmation, innovation, extension, and 
declaration of the other decrees and constitutions of the holy pontiffs, is- 
sued in prohibition of parting with them in fee ; and in no way and at no 
time, either directly or indirectly, whatever cause, color, or occasion, even 
of evident necessity or utility may present itself, to act against them or to 

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give advice, counsel, or consent against them in any way; but, on the 
contrary, always and constantly to dissent from, oppose, and reveal every 
device and practice against them, whatever may come to my knowledge 
by myself or by any messenger, immediately to his Holiness, or his suc- 
cessors, lawfully entering, under the penalties (in case of neglect or dis- 
obedience) contained in the said constitutions, or any other heavier ones 
that it may seem fit to his Holiness and his before-mentioned successors 
(to inflict ... I will not seek absolution from any of the foregoing 
articles, but reject it if it should be offered me, or in no way accept it 
when offered). So help me God and these most holy gospels." 



ROMAN TREASON TO THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC 

As evidences of the blatant treason, ingratitude and 
treachery of Romanism to this Republic, which the Roman 
Pontiff has ordered his minions to "Make Catholic," the fol- 
lowing excerpts of undisputed Catholic utterances are here 
presented. Let Americans read, and ponder, and then, raising 
their hands to God on high, swear to their Creator that never 
hereafter will they vote for or appoint to any office or place 
of preferment in these United States, any man who calls 
himself a Roman Catholic, or any one who solicits or seeks a 
Catholic vote or influence in any political movement or en- 
deavor: 

"We urge the appointment of an enlisting officer to rally the Irish- 
men of every country and to render their services fifty or a hundred thou- 
sand strong to any Nation or Republic that might become embroiled 
with England." — Timothy O'Leary, of Montana in an Irish Catholie Con- 
vention, Chicago, September 25, 1895. 

"Let the American government and the British government under- 
stand that we are in this fight to stay ; that we are enlisted not for one, 
two, or three years, but for the war. We will enlist our young Irishmen 
in regular battalions. We want to be ready when the time comes." — Ex- 
Congressman Finerty, in Irish Catholic Convention, Chicago, Sept. 25, 1895. 

"Moral suasion is a dead policy, and all that remains is the field and 
the sword." — John McNamara, of Ohio, in Irish Catholic Convention, Chi- 
cago, September 25, 1895. 

"We call on the clergy everywhere to organize the laity, male and fe- 
male, old and young, into secret societies, and that the men and boys 
may have competent instructors to give them military training, that they 
may be prepared to aid and sustain our faith in an emergency." — Pope 
Leo XIII. 

"Catholicity is the strongest political force in the country." — The 
Church Progress, of St. Louis, Jan. 4, 1912. 

"So great an honor has never been conferred on the historic pile, the 
White House, as will be conferred when there will be a Catholie altar 
erected therein by the will, consent and hands of the American people. 
The Catholic Church is today the balance wheel of the Republic, and the 
day is not far distant when she will become the entire machinery of this 
Government and perpetuate it." — Catholic News. 

"It must have been hard on General Miles, when he stood in the 
stand for the unveiling of the Columbus statue in Washington, to see the 
Knights of Columbus pass by in parade. The swords of the Fourth Degree 
men must have convinced him that the Order is but waiting the oppor- 
tunity to cut a path for the Pope into the White House." — From "The Tab- 

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let," a Roman Catholic paper published in Washington City, June 15, 1912, 
and again Nov. 11, 1916, in the same paper. 

"All Catholics who are worthy of the name must work to the end, 
that every State is made conformable to the Christian model (the Catholic 
Church) we have prescribed." — Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII, dated Nov. 
7, 1885 ; reported in Mueller's. 

"We will take this country and build our institutions over the graves 
of Protestantism." — Priest Hecker. 

"All Catholics must make themselves felt as active agents in the daily 
political life in countries where they live. They must penetrate wherever 
possible in the administration of civil affairs." — Pope Leo XIII. 

"We are Catholics first and citizens next." — Bishop Gilmour. 

"The Catholic Church is everything to all the Catholics of the world ; 
they renounce all nationalities where there is a question of loyalty to her. 
The Catholics of all the world would die for the rights of the Pope." 

"Tell us we are Catholics first and Americans or Englishmen after- 
wards ; of course we are. Tell us in the conflict between the Church and 
the civil government we take the side of the Church ; of course we do. 
Why, if the government of the United States were at war with the Church, 
we would say tomorrow, 'To hell with the government of the United 
States,' and if the Church and all the governments of the world were at 
war, we would say 'To hell with all the governments of the world.' — 
Why is it that in this country, where we have only seven per cent of 
the population, the Catholic Church is so much feared? She is loved by 
all her children and feared by everybody. Why is it the Pope has such 
tremendous power? Why, the Pope is the ruler of the world. All the 
emperors, all the kings, all the princes, all the presidents of the world, are 
as these altar boys of mine. The Pope is the ruler of the world." — Ex- 
tract from a sermon for Sunday, June 30, 1912, printed in Western Watch- 
man, June 27, 1912, by Priest Phelan, mouthpiece of the Pope in America. 

"The Civil laws are binding in consequence so long as they are con- 
formable to the rights of the Catholic Church." — Quoted from a very 
prominent Roman Catholic work, entitled "Abridged Course of Religious 
Instructions," page 178. 

"Furthermore, it is generally fitting and salutary, that Catholics 
should extend their efforts beyond this restricted sphere, and give their at- 
tention to National politics." — Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII. 

"Where the Church does not forbid taking part in public affairs, 
it is fit and proper to give support to men of acknowledged worth, who 
pledge themselves to deserve well in the Catholic cause." — Encyclical of 
Pope Leo XIII, dated Jan. 10, 1890. 

"The supreme duty of Catholics is to obey the Pope, and seek in every 
way, and especially by means of the ballot, to render the Catholic policy 
effective in this country." — The Catholic World, New York, July, 1870. 

"We Catholics start out with the principle, that Catholicism is the 
only religious truth, and that man is naturally Christian, and is bound so 
to be in order to save his soul ; and on these grounds and for these pur- 
poses, we demand liberty whenever and wherever it is denied us ; but we 
object with all our might that it should be a necessary consequence or 
correlated obligation, to grant the same liberty to those who oppose us. 
And if we were to feel or act otherwise, we would acknowledge ourselves 
illogical in our most intimate convictions." — From the "Morning Star" 
of New Orleans, La., May 21, 1913. 

"In politics, in matters involving faith, morals, or Catholic rights, the 
clergy are the leaders and teachers of the Catholic body, and their in- 
structions will be obeyed." — The Columbian Record, Nov. 24, 1911. 

"You should do all in your power to carry out the pious intentions 
of His Holiness the Pope. When you have the electoral franchise, give 

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your votes to none but those who will assist you in a holy struggle." — 
Daniel O'ConnelFs Letter in the Repealers in America. 

"I admit the Pope can absolve Catholics from allegiance to the form 
of Government under which they reside." — Priest McDermott, in a sermon 
in Philadelphia, April 15, 1894. 

"The Church can dispense from promissory oath. The power belongs 
to the Pope and the bishops who exercise it either themselves or by their 
delegates." — Abridged Course of Religious Instruction for the use of col- 
leges and schools, page 203 — A new book now used in America. 

"In every promissory oath, although absolutely taken, there are cer- 
tain conditions tacitly understood, amongst which are : First, If I can ; 
second, to save the right and authority of a superior ; third, when the 
oath supposes the right and the honor of the Apostolic See to be illicit." — 
From Canon Law governing testimony in civil courts. 

"It is said that politics are not within the province of the Church, 
and that the Church has jurisdiction only in matters of faith. 

"You say, T will receive my faith from the Pontiff, but I will not 
receive my politics from him.' 

"This assertion is disloyal and untruthful. You must not think as 
you choose ; you must think as Catholics ; the man who says, 1 will take 
my faith from Peter, but I will not take my politics from Peter,' is not a 
true Catholic." — Extract from an address from Priest Preston, reported 
in the New York Herald, Jan. 2, 1888. 

"While the State has rights, she has them only in virtue and by per- 
mission of superior authority, and that authority can only be infallibly an- 
nounced and unchangeably asserted regardless of temporal consequences." — 
The Catholic World. Vol. XI, No. 64, 1870. 

"It would be very erroneous to draw the conclusion, that in America 
is to be sought the type of the most desirable status of the Church, or that 
it would be universally lawful or expedient, for the State and Church to 
be, as in America, dissevered and divorced. The fact that Catholicity with 
you is in good condition, nay, is even enjoying a prosperous growth, is by 
all means attributed to the fecundity with which God has endowed His 
Church, in virtue of which, unless men or circumstances interfere, she 
spontaneously expands and propagates herself ; but she would bring forth 
more abundant fruits if in addition to liberty, she enjoyed the favor of the 
laws and the patronage of the public authority." — lb. pp. 323-24. 

"The time has come when we are surrounded by an enemy. Be 
ready when they make their attack on us. You should all of you men 
join the Catholic Knights and be instructed for the fray, and be in the 
front, shoulder to shoulder. We must protect our right in this country 
as well as our Church, for our Church is the only true Church in the 
world. We must defend it and uphold it at all hazards. We priests may 
not go to the front with you, but will back you." — Priest Fabian, of Wis- 
consin. 

"For every musket given to the State armory let three be purchased 
forthwith. Let independent companies be formed. Let every foreigner 
be drilled, trained, and have his arms always ready. Be careful not to 
truckle in the smallest particular to American prejudices. Yield not a 
single jot of your own." — The Irish Journal, New York. 

"Ere long there will be a state religion in the United States, and that 
state religion is to be the Roman Catholic." — Priest Hecker. 

"The public man who antagonizes the Catholic Church in these days 
is a political suicide." — Western Watchman, St. Louis. 

"The Roman Catholic is to wield his vote for the purpose of securing 
Catholic ascendency in this country." — Priest Hecker, in the Catholic 
World, July, 1870. 

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"When the Church needed armed men to enlist as Crusaders, the 
young men of the Church shouldered the musket and saber and obeyed the 
orders of the Church. When the Church wanted to get rid of the Sara- 
cens, the faithful arose en masse and exterminated them. The Church may 
have to call on you to defend her right in this country, and I know the 
young men will obey the Church and take up arms to exterminate the 
enemies of the Roman Catholic Church." — Priest Minard, Detroit, Mich., 
Journal, Nov. 7, 1893. 

"The Pope, by divine right, hath supreme right over the whole world, 
both in ecclesiastical and civil affairs." — Bellarmine, a Jesuit theologian. 

"The Roman Pontiff can absolve persons even from oaths of alle- 
giance." — Canon Authentatis, Part 2, Question. 

"No layman must judge a priest, nor examine anything of his life. 
And no secular prince ought to judge the facts of any prelate or priest 
whatsoever." — Decree of Pope Nicholas — Carranza, page 395. 

"Civil independence is absolutely necessary for the free and untram- 
melled exercise of the supreme Pontiff. The supreme head of the uni- 
versal Church cannot consistently with the dignity of his office or the 
exercise of the powers of which he is a depositary be the subject of any 
government, but must not only possess, but freely exercise sovereign rights." 
—The Western Watchman, Sept. 24, 1911. 

"The power of the Church is superior to the power of the state." — 
Pope Gregory XII. 

"We call upon the clergy everywhere to organize the laity, male 
and female, old and young, into secret societies, and that the men and 
boys may have competent instructors to give them military training, 
that they may be prepared to aid and sustain our faith in an emergency." — 
Exhortation of Pope Leo XIII, quoted from The Christian, July, 1914. 

"If the Pope's authority and that of any civil government comes into 
conflict upon any vital point, the Catholic is to act in the nineteenth cen- 
tury precisely as he did in the first, second or third century." — The 
Catholic World, New York, July, 1870. 

"When the Pope speaks the Church speaks, and when the Church 
speaks, God speaks. Though we love our country dearly, we love our 
Church more, and the Pope more."— The Catholic Weekly, Albany, N. Y. 

"Let the American and the British governments understand that we 
are in this fight to stay ; that we are enlisted not for one, two or three 
years, but for the war. We will enlist our young Irishmen in regular 
battalions (the Church of Rome now has 386,000 Irish Knights of Co- 
lumbus organized and, some say, drilled). We want to be ready when 
the time comes." — Part of an address by ex-Congressman Finerty, in an 
Irish Convention in Chicago, September 25, 1895. 

"Church is more than country." — New York Tablet. 

"We do not accept this government or hold it to be any government 
at all."— Catholic World. 

"If the Pope should declare war against the United States, all true 
Roman Catholics would be compelled to take the side of the Pope against 
the government." — Golden Manual. 

"It is an error to believe that the Church ought to be separated from 
the State, and the State from the Church." — Pope Pius IX, in his Sylla- 
bus of Errors. 



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THE VERY BAD POPES 

(From "History of the Popes," by Robert J. Long.) 

498. Pope Symmachus. Bad morals. 

514. Pope Hormsidas, Cruel and fanatical. 

523. Pope John I. Charged with treason ; died in prison. 

536. Pope Silverius. Put to death for treason. 

555. Pope Pelagius I. Accused of poisoning his predecessor. 

604. Pope Sabinianus. Avaricious and cruel. 

607. Pope Boniface III. First called "Pope :" title bestowed on him by 

the blood thirsty usurper, Emperor Phoedus. 

768. Pope Stephen IV. A bloody tyrant of the worst character. 

816. Pope Pascal I. Of very bad morals, and exceedingly cruel. 

827. Gregory IV. Bad in all respects. 

855. Pope Joan. Woman of bad character. 

856. Popes Benedict III and Anastasius fighting for the pontificate. 
858. Pope Nicholas I. Accused by his Bishops of tyranny and gross 

immoralities. 

872. Pope John VIII. Very Bad. 

882. Pope Martin II. Died from a horrible disease brought on from 
his impurity. 

891. Pope Formosus I. Caused the death of half the people of Rome by 
his constant quarrels. 

986. Pope Stephen VII. Strangled because of his wickedness. 

987-903. Popes Romanus, Theodore II, and John IX, each "rescind and 
abrogate" the decrees of their immediate predecessors. 

909-963. Pope Sergius III, and Popes John XI, XII and XHI, so infa- 
mously vile, that the story of their lives never appears in print. 

964. Pope Leo VIII. Caught in adultery and killed by the woman's 

husband. 

965. Pope Benedict strangled because of his wickedness. 

975. Pope Benedict VIII murdered at a banquet in the Vatican, sixty of 

the leading men of Rome his guests. 
984. Pope Boniface VII. Dies in a debauch. 

1012. Pope Benedict VIII massacred the Jews in their synagogues. 

1024. Pope John XIX. Driven from the city by the people of Rome be- 
cause of his wickedness. 

1033. Pope Benedict IX. Made Pope at age of 12. Deposed ; restored ; de- 
posed again. 

1044. John XX. Bought Pontifical chair from Benedict. There are now 
three Popes — Benedict, Sylvester and John. 

1073. Gregory VIII. One of the greatest and worst of the Popes (Hilde- 
brand). 

1099. Pope Pascale II. Tyrant and political intriguer. 

1159. Pope Alexander III. Very bad. 

1198. Pope Innocent III. Very bad. 

1227. Pope Gregory IX. Massacres the Albigenses and sells indulgences 
for any crime. 

1281. Pope Martin IV. The terrible "Sicilian Vespers" massacre oc- 
curred under this Pope. 

1288. Pope Nicholas IV. Originated the Inquisition. 

1294. Pope Boniface VIII. Very Bad. Said by Roman historians that this 
Pope is still in purgatory. 

1305. Pope Clement VI. Extremely immoral. 

1362. Pope Urban V. Grossly immoral. 

1378 to 1417. There were two or three Popes reigning at the same time 
through all this period — most of them exceedingly bad. 

1471. Pope Sixtus IV. One of the very worst of the Popes. 

1484. Pope Innocent VIII. Bitter persecutor of the Vandois. 

1491. Pope Alexander VI. The infamous Borgia whose career is so well 
known. 

1534. Pope Paul III. Man of infamous record. 

1565. Pope Pius V. Ordered assassination of Queen Elizabeth. 

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DISLOYALTY OF CATHOLICS IN THE CIVIL WAR 

Whole number of troops engaged in the Civil War 2,128,200 

Natives of the United States 1,625,268 

Germans 180,817 

Irishmen 144,221 

British (other than Irish) 90,040 

Other foreigners 87,855 

The deserters were as follows : 

Natives of the U. S. 5 per cent, 

Germans 10 per eent, 

IRISH CATHOLICS 72 per cent. 

British (other than Irish) 7 per cent. 

Other foreigners 6 per cent. 

In other words of the 144,000 Irishmen that enlisted, 104,000 deserted. 
It is also a fact that of the 5 per cent of native Americans rated as de- 
serters, 45 per cent of the 5 per cent were Roman Catholics. 



ATTITUDE OF ROMANISM TOWARDS THE PUBLIC 

SCHOOLS 

As Romanism has ever realized that education and en- 
lightenment of the people was her greatest bane, she has al- 
ways sought to circumscribe human intelligence in order to 
hold and exercise her diabolical influence and power. She 
has, therefore, declared relentless war upon the public schools 
of this country, and is employing now her every satanical 
agency for their destruction. 

The following items here submitted should suffice to put 
all loyal Americans on notice that a Roman Catholic teacher 
in the public schools, is as much out of place as would be a 
rattlesnake in a cradle with an innocent baby. 

In attestation of the unfriendly attitude of the Roman 
Catholic Hierarchy towards the Public Schools, the following 
extracts from the Syllabus of Pope Pius IX, dated Dec. 8th, 
1864, is quoted; and in as much as these declarations become 
the Supreme Law governing the Catholic Church in these 
United States, it is well to consider the import and stress as 
a beginning to this exposition of Roman Catholic opinion con- 
cerning public schools: 

1. The state has not the right to the exclusive direction of the 
public schools. 

2. The Church has the right to deprive the civil authorities of the 
entire government of the public schools. 

3. The Catholic Church has the right to interfere in the discipline 
of the public schools, and in the choice of the teachers for those schools. 

4. That the public schools open to all children for the education of 
the young should be under the control of the Catholic Church, should not 
be subject to the civil powers, nor made to conform to the opinion of 
the age. 

5. Education outside the control of the Catholic Church is a damn- 
able heresy. 

Now read, and carefully note the following excerpts and quotations 



from Roman Catholic sources which can be substantiated as absolutely- 
exact in the wording as well as the source of their origin : 

"Let the public school system go to where it came from, the Devil". — 
Freeman's Journal, Nov. 16, 1869. 

"An imperfect and vicious system of education which undermines the 
religion of youth." — Cardinal Gibbons. 

"The common schools of this country are sinks of moral pollution and 
nurseries of hell." — The Chicago Tablet. 

"The public schools have produced nothing but a Godless generation 
of thieves and blackguards." — Priest Schaner. 

"It will be a glorious day in this country, when, under the laws the 
school system will be shivered to pieces." — Catholic Telegraph. 

"We would rather our children should grow up in ignorance of let- 
ters, than be taught in a school that is not Catholic." — Catholic Review. 

"We must take part in the elections, move in solid mass in every 
state against the party pledged to sustain the integrity of the public 
schools." — Cardinal McClosky. 

"I do not consider that we are doing our duty as American citizens, to 
ourselves, or to our children in permitting such a system of public schools 
to exist as we have today." — Prof. Dunne of the Jesuit College, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

"The day is not far distant when Catholics, at the order of the Pope, 
will refuse to pay the school tax and will send bullets into the breasts of 
the officials who attempt to collect them." — Mngr. Cappell. 

"Education must be controlled by Catholic authorities, and under edu- 
cation the opinions of the individuals and utterances of the press are in- 
cluded, and many opinions are to be forbidden by the secular arm, under 
the authority of the Church, even to war and bloodshed." — Priest Hecker, 
quoted by Catholic World, July, 1870. 

"The children of the public schools turn out to be horse thieves, 
scholastic counterfeiters and well versed in schemes of deviltry. I frankly 
confess that Catholics stand before the country as the enemies of the pub- 
lic schools. They are afraid that the child that left home in the morning 
would come back with something in his heart as black as hell." — Priest 
Phelan, St. Louis, Oct., 1873. 

"The public schools have produced nothing but a godless generation of 
thieves and blackguards." — The statement of a well known priest named 
Chaucer, who was the interpreter of papal lore some years ago. 

"The public school system is a disgrace to the civilization of the 
nineteenth century." — The sentiment expressed by Archbishop Hughes, of 
New York. 

"The public school is a national fraud ; it must cease to exist, and 
the day will come when it will cease to exist." — Priest McCarthy in a 
sermon, Dec. 23, 1887. 

"I would as soon administer the sacrament to dogs (and it would do 
the poor dog quite as much good) as to Catholics who send their children 
to the public schools, for the public schools are nurseries of vice, and are 
godless schools, and they who send their children to them cannot expect 
the mercy of God." — Extract from a sermon by Priest Walker, of New 
York, taken from Harper's Weekly, March 14, 1875. 

"The duty of all loyal Roman Catholics is to wage common war on 
the public schools." — Priest Gleason. 

"The law of the Church in this diocese debars from the sacraments 
parents who send their children to public schools." — Bishop Foley. 

"I frankly confess that the Catholics stand before the country as the 
enemies of the public schools." — Mgr. Satolli. 

"The Catholic Church prefers the parochial school system under the 
control of religious authority." — Mgr. Satolli. 

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"The common school system of the United States is the worst in the 
world." — Cardinal Manning. 

"The Public Schools ought to go back to the devil, from whence they 
came." — Freeman's Journal. 

"Swearing, cursing, and profane expressions are distinctive marks 
of public school children." — Second Provincial Council of Oregon, 1881. 

"The Public Schools are nurseries of vice ; they are godless, and un- 
less suppressed will prove the damnation of this country." — Father Walker. 

"Our public school system as organized in this State is emphatically 
a social plague." — Archbishop Perche. 

"We view with alarm the rapid spread of American education, know- 
ing full well that wherever the people are intelligent, the priest and prince 
cannot hope to have the same unquestioning obedience as from the masses 
whose brains have been fertilized only with our holy catechism. That 
in order to restore the order of things that made the reign of Gregory 
VII of holy memory so glorious, the people must not think. That is a 
privilege that belongs only to priests and princes who by divine right are 
the only persons designed by God to do the political and religious think- 
ing of the world." — Leo XIII. 

"The State has no right to educate, and when the State undertakes 
the work of education it is usurping the powers of the Church." — Bishop 
McQuaid. 

"The duty of all Roman Catholics is to wage common war on the 
public schools." — Priest Gleason. 



ROMANISTS DEFY OUR MARRIAGE LAWS 

No more bigoted, presumptuous, intolerant and insulting 
attitude of the Roman Catholic Church has ever been mani- 
fested by Papal traitors towards American institutions, than 
is shov/n in the infamous actions of the Roman priesthood, 
regarding American Marriage laws. 

When the Ne Temere edict of the Pope Pius X was first 
promulgated, even old Kaiser Bill was so outraged that he 
immediately notified the Pope that if he didn't exempt his 
empire from its infamous insult to the women of his country, 
and to the laws of the empire, that he, the kaiser, would 
banish every priest from his kingdom. And now, that the 
women of America have been accorded the right of franchise, 
I trust that the day may soon come when, by the exercise of 
their ballots, Romanism will be compelled to respect our mar- 
riage laws, and to close up their infernal Houses of Prosti- 
tution, their Female Penitentiaries, Sweat Shops of the Good 
Shepherd, and every one of their walled-in prisons wherein 
children and women are now being held in disregard of our 
American laws against human slavery. 

Let the task of destroying these infamous places of Roman 
hellishness be the first work to which all good and virtuous 
women of America shall consecrate themselves to accomplish- 
ing. 

Nearly every European nation has already abolished those 
polluted dens of priestly intrigue and assignation, but Amer- 
ica, the boasted "Land of the free and the brave," still permits 

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such places to exist, and neither the men of the Democratic 
or Republican parties have shown themselves as adverse to 
their continued existence. 

But, with faith in the womanhood of this country, I en- 
treat them now, to gird themselves for the fight against those 
pitfalls of hell and, with the power now vested in their hands, 
so cast their ballots and use their all-powerful influence 
that no candidate for office shall henceforth ever dare to seek 
their suffrage before having publicly proclaimed his hostility 
to their further existence in this country. 

Surely do I believe that when once the attention of the 
women has been called to these pestilential crime-infested 
cesspools of damnation, and their true character is by them 
fully understood, that they will meet the fate of those other 
festering ulcers, the saloons, breweries and distilleries, which 
have already been driven from this nation. 

Yes, Romanism, that has ever sought to degrade, pollute 
and enslave the women of every race deserves and should re- 
ceive the verdict of condemnation, which, our women's votes, 
should declare unfit for a place in this land of freedom, jus- 
tice, wisdom, tolerance and progress. 

ROMAN CATHOLIC DECLARATIONS AGAINST PROTESTANT MAR- 
RIAGES AND INSULTS TO AMERICAN PROTESTANT WOMEN 

On August 2, 1910, Pope Pius X issued and published throughout the 
world his famous NS TSMERE Decree, which is but the echo of the same 
thought expressed by the Council of Trent, and being interpreted means, 
only those marriages are valid in which a prie?t of the Roman Catholic 
faith pronounces the ceremony. In other words those who have not been 
married by a papal priest are living in adultery and the offspring of such 
marriages are bastards. 

"Without the presence of the parish priest or some other priest com- 
missioned by him, or by the ordinary, and two or three witnesses, there 
can be no marriage." — Catechism of the Council of Trent, page 313. 

In the appendix of Ripalda's Catechism, published at Barcelona, 
Spain, November 10, 1910, and bearing the Imprimatur of the Vicar Gen- 
eral, Jose Palmorola, the following is set forth for the papist youth to 
learn : 

Question — What is the matrimony which is called civil? 

Answer — That which is celebrated by a civil authority, without any 
ecclesiastical intervention whatever. 

Question — Is civil matrimony true matrimony? 

Answer — No, but base concubinage. 

Question — Why ? 

Answer — Because true matrimony should be celebrated by the eccle- 
siastical authority, fulfilling likewise all which has been ordained by Jesus 
Christ and cur holy mother Church. 



"Civil marriage is only licensed co-habitation. There should be no 
such legal abomination, and the Church should be supreme judge of the 
marriage relation." — Priest Phelan in Western Watchman, March 28, 1912. 

"You Catholics ought to be proud of your women, because you are 
the only people in the world that have virtuous women ; there are no vir- 
tuous women in the Protestant churches." — Priest Corbett, Duluth, Minn., 
in an address before the G. A. R. 

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"This country is ceasing to be Yankee and Protestant, because the 
Yankee and Protestant women will neither be virgins nor mothers." — 
Western Watchman, St. Louis, Jan. 30, 1913. 

"What right has a Protestant wife to object to her husband having 
a mistress ; and what reason has a Protestant husband to object to his 
wife's having a lover ? There is absolutely nothing in Protestant Christ- 
ianity to prevent it. Luther claimed it as one of the glorious privileges 
of the Gospel."— The old renegade Priest Phelan of St. Louis, Mo. — West- 
ern Watchman, Nov. 26, 1914. 



WHAT SOME GREAT MEN HAVE SAID ABOUT ROMANISM 



"Romanism is the foe of humanity. It has cut the cords of friend- 
ship and severed the ties of blood. It has put the poisoned cup of slander 
to the lips of virtue, cast the mire of suspicion on the white robes of in- 
nocence, shot the arrow of deceit into the breast cf unsuspecting confi- 
dence, driven the dagger of hate into the bosom of life, torn the crown 
of respect from the brow of honesty, set the trap of malignity to catch 
the guileless soul, concocted evil in the children of rage, slaughtered rea- 
son on the altar of superstition, and imprisoned freedom in the dungeon 
of despotism." — Ex-Monk Widdows, a former papist teacher. 

"From the Penitentials of Theodore of Tarsus and Egbert down to Dens 
and Liguori, of the latest guides and manuals that popularize their teach- 
ings there is throughout the same revolting minuteness in the description 
of all imaginable forms of sexual vices." — -Confession of Absolution, page 
38, by Dean Plumtre. 

"What is this power beneath whose sirocco breath the fame of Eng- 
land is fast withering? Were it the dominion of another conqueror, 
another Bold Bastard with his belted sword, we might gnaw the fetters 
which we cannot burst. Were it the genuine Napoleon with whom we 
are again struggling, we might trust the issue to the God of battles, with 
a sainted confidence in our good cause and our national energies. But 
we are sinking beneath a power before which the proudest conquerors 
have grown pale, and by which the nations most devoted to freedom have 
been enslaved — the Power cf a Foreign Priesthood." — Disraeli, 1853. 

"It is my opinion that if the liberties of this country — the United 
States of America — are destroyed, it will be by the subtlety of the Roman 
Catholic Jesuit priests, for they are the most crafty, dangerous enemies to 
civil and religious liberty. They have instigated most of the wars of Eu- 
rope."— General LaFayette in a letter to Rev. E. L. Van Pelt about the 
year 1814. See American and Foreign Christian Union for July, August 
and October, 1855. 

"The Church of Rome is not a body of theological beliefs but an im- 
mense secret society, animated in all parts of the world with one ambition, 
moving everywhere and in all times toward one end — the establishment of 
absolute power for itself over all men, in all lands." — Hon. Robert Mon- 
tague, Queen's Privy Counsel. 

"If we are to have another contest in the near future for our national 
existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be the Mason and Dixon's, 
but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side and superstition, 
ambition and ignorance on the other."— General U. S. Grant, at DesMoines, 
Iowa, before the Army of the Tennessee, 1876. 

"This glorious liberty, these benign institutions, the dear purchase of 
our fathers, are ours, ours to enjoy, ours to preserve, ours to transmit. 
Generations past and generations to come hold us responsible for the sa- 
cred trust. Our fathers from behind admonish with their paternal voices, 
posterity calls out from the bosom of the future, the world turns hither its 
solicitous eye — all, all conjure us to act wisely and faithfully in the rela- 
tion we sustain." — Daniel Webster. 

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"This country had its first conflict for its independent existence, its 
second for its unbroken unity ; the third will be for its institutions." — Dr. 
Philip Schaff. 

"He who accepts papal . infallibility, and with it the ultramontane in- 
terpretation of the power of the Pope over the world, and thinks that by 
offending the Pope he offends God, will obey, passively, unrestrictingly, 
uninquiringly. Such a man, whether priest or layman, high or low, is 
necessarily inimical to the government and institutions of the United 
States ; with him no oath of allegiance is worth more than the paper 
upon which it is written." — Hon. R. W. Thompson, Formerly Secretary 
of the United States Navy. 

"Every Catholic whose actions are ruled by the faith he professes is 
a born enemy of the state, since he finds himself bound in conscience 
to contribute as far as in him lies to the subjugation of all nations, and 
all kings, to the Roman Pontiff." — The Pope, The King and the People, 
Vol. 2, page 265. 

"This government will pass through two wars, one over slavery and 
the other with Catholics." — Henry Clay. 

"If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will 
fall by the hand of the Catholic clergy." — LaFayette. 

"If you exempt the property of any Church organization, to that ex- 
tent you impose a tax upon the whole community." — James A. Garfield. 

"The Pope, had he the power, would employ fire and sword against 
us. For this reason I expel the Jesuits from Germany." — Prince Bis- 
marck. 

"I can scarcely withhold myself from joining in the wish of Silas 
Dean, that there was an ocean of fire between this country and the whole 
world." — Thomas Jefferson. 

"No more cunning plot was ever divulged against the intelligence, 
the freedom, the happiness and virtue of mankind, than Romanism." — 
William E. Gladstone. 

"The Church teaches you that a nun is holier in the sight of God 
than a mother with a child in her thrilled and thrilling arms. I don't 
believe in keeping penitentiaries for God." — Robt. Ingersoll. 

"The crucial test of the American republic will come in the early part 
of the twentieth century ; and as the Huns swept down on Rome, so will 
a vast horde sweep down on America." — Macaulay. 

"I do not pretend to be a prophet ; but though not a prophet, I see 
a very dark cloud on our horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome. 
It is filled with tears of blood. The true motive power is secreted behind 
the thick walls of the Vatican, the colleges and schools of the Jesuits, and 
the convents of the nuns, and the confessional boxes of Rome." — Abra- 
ham Lincoln. 

"All the low population of Europe will be carried into America. It 
will be a receptacle for the bad and disaffected. This will create a sur- 
plus — a heterogeneous population — speaking a different language — of differ- 
ent religion and sentiments ; these will carry with them their principles — 
will adhere to their former government, laws, manners, customs and religion 
— speak of them among the natives, some of whom will join them — and they 
will become citizens — discord and civil war will follow — some popular man 
will take the lead to restore order — the European sovereigns will aid him — 
all the emigrants will join, and the government will be subverted." — 
Duke of Richmond. 

"Americans must be blind, indeed, if they cannot see that the day is 
very near when the Jesuits will rule their cities, from the magnificent 
White House in Washington to the humblest civil or military department." 
— Rev. Charles Chiniquy. 

"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to 
believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to con- 

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stantly awake ; since history and experience prove that foreign influence 
is ©ne of the most baneful foes of Republican Government." — George Wash- 
ington. 

"The thirteen colonies were all Protestant. The members of Congress 
in their addresses to the people of Great Britain declared 'The Roman 
Catholic Religion dispenses impiety, bigotry, persecution, murder and re- 
bellion throughout every part of the world.' " — Bancroft's History, vol. IV, 
page 40. 

The foregoing evidences of disloyalty, treason, ingratitude 
and insult of Romanism to this American Republic, together 
with the facts showing their enmity and hostility towards 
our public schools, and their disregard and defiance of our 
marriage laws, as well as their base ingratitude and demonia- 
cal efforts to destroy our present form of Government, and 
to substitute the autocratic rule of their triple-crowned Su- 
preme King, Lord and Sovereign, are but a few of a thou- 
sand facts and evidences that I can supply to prove that the 
Roman Catholic Hierarchy is not a church, but is a political 
autocracy, only employing the camouflage of religion to 
conceal its real nature and its true objects, which, in brief, 
may be set forth in these few words: Political and temporal 
power of the Pope, the domination over all other secular and 
political powers, the intervention of its influence and power 
for the purpose of suppressing free speech, freedom of as- 
sembly, free press, and by every art and scheming to prevent 
the spread of liberty, education and the light of true religion. 

Whether or not Roman Catholics admit this fact it is dem- 
onstrably true that no member of the Church of Rome in this 
country, who is loyal to her claims and teachings, can be at 
the same time a loyal citizen of this country. And, since a 
Roman Catholic can not make any oath, vow or affirmation 
that will bind him to tell the truth, or bind him to perform 
any prescribed duty, since, according to his religion and the 
teachings of his church he may make such oath or vow, with 
such mental reservations as he may wish, and because, ac- 
cording to his religion and the teachings of his church, he 
may at will violate any such oath, vow or affirmation and, 
at his own request, be absolved by his priest from the sin of 
false swearing — this, being true, it is my honest opinion that 
every member of the Roman Hierarchy, in this country, 
should be disfranchised and not permitted to vote, hold office, 
sit on jury, testify in court or teach in our public schools. 



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